American Internet Will Have Chinese Style Censorship Within 5 Years

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Large internet monopolies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter have committed themselves to censorship of ideas and views they don't like but the purge isn't stopping there. Sites like Paypal, Pareton, and ISPs are joining into the purge as well.

When a neo-Nazi psychopath plowed his car into a crowd of Leftist protesters in Charlottesville, the Left saw a golden opportunity to use the moment as its Reichstag Fire, and indulge its increasingly obvious authoritarian tendencies. But when they came after Jihad Watch, they overreached.

On Saturday afternoon, the Soros-funded hard-Left website ProPublica published a hit piece calling upon PayPal and other new media giants to block Jihad Watch and other groups that have been defamed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as “hate groups.” ProPublica’s Lauren Kirchner complained that Jihad Watch’s “designation as a hate site hasn’t stopped tech companies — including PayPal, Amazon and Newsmax — from maintaining partnerships with Jihad Watch that help to sustain it financially. PayPal facilitates donations to the site. Newsmax — the online news network run by President Donald Trump’s close friend Chris Ruddy — pays Jihad Watch in return for users clicking on its headlines. Until recently, Amazon allowed Jihad Watch to participate in a program that promised a cut of any book sales that the site generated. All three companies have policies that say they don’t do business with hate groups.”

The Left media said “Jump,” and PayPal immediately said “How high?” Just hours after the ProPublica piece appeared, PayPal blocked Jihad Watch. I received an email early Saturday evening from PayPal’s Ronita Murray, saying: “Due to the nature of your activities, we have chosen to discontinue service to you in accordance with PayPal’s User Agreement. As a result, we have placed a permanent limitation on your account.”

But after banning Jihad Watch, PayPal encountered a crowd of free citizens. PayPal was inundated with emails and tweets denouncing its ready capitulation to Leftist attempts to delegitimize and silence all dissent. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people canceled their PayPal accounts.


And so PayPal quickly came to realize that the power of the people is not vested solely in the Leftist thugs who assert themselves ever more aggressively on America’s streets. PayPal discovered that America is still full of patriots who don’t wish to accept the Left’s lie that opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression constitutes “Islamophobia,” which is worse than jihad terror itself. What made Jihad Watch no longer a “hate site”? The voices of free people.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267...ns-jihad-watch-then-backs-down-robert-spencer



This however is only a small part of the problem, leftists are using the subjective term of 'hate speech' to mass censor and silence any opinions they don't agree with. From silencing the individuals, pulling down websites they don't like, and going as far to go after the financial institutions to get them banned from receiving funds as well, they is clearly no line the authoritarians of group think won't go to snuff non progressive viewpoints. China works directly with media giants such as Apple and Google to mute their population and i'm afraid the same is coming here to the USA as clearly people see no problem with a handful of corporations controlling what the masses can see and think.


I believe in 5 years, the internet as we know it will be similar to China's top down authoritarian control.
 
No need to worry, I'm sure the President will say something comforting, for both sides, both sides
 
TheStruggle said:
Large internet monopolies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter have committed themselves to censorship of ideas and views they don't like but the purge isn't stopping there. Sites like Paypal, Pareton, and ISPs are joining into the purge as well.

When a neo-Nazi psychopath plowed his car into a crowd of Leftist protesters in Charlottesville, the Left saw a golden opportunity to use the moment as its Reichstag Fire, and indulge its increasingly obvious authoritarian tendencies. But when they came after Jihad Watch, they overreached.

On Saturday afternoon, the Soros-funded hard-Left website ProPublica published a hit piece calling upon PayPal and other new media giants to block Jihad Watch and other groups that have been defamed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as “hate groups.” ProPublica’s Lauren Kirchner complained that Jihad Watch’s “designation as a hate site hasn’t stopped tech companies — including PayPal, Amazon and Newsmax — from maintaining partnerships with Jihad Watch that help to sustain it financially. PayPal facilitates donations to the site. Newsmax — the online news network run by President Donald Trump’s close friend Chris Ruddy — pays Jihad Watch in return for users clicking on its headlines. Until recently, Amazon allowed Jihad Watch to participate in a program that promised a cut of any book sales that the site generated. All three companies have policies that say they don’t do business with hate groups.”

The Left media said “Jump,” and PayPal immediately said “How high?” Just hours after the ProPublica piece appeared, PayPal blocked Jihad Watch. I received an email early Saturday evening from PayPal’s Ronita Murray, saying: “Due to the nature of your activities, we have chosen to discontinue service to you in accordance with PayPal’s User Agreement. As a result, we have placed a permanent limitation on your account.”

But after banning Jihad Watch, PayPal encountered a crowd of free citizens. PayPal was inundated with emails and tweets denouncing its ready capitulation to Leftist attempts to delegitimize and silence all dissent. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people canceled their PayPal accounts.


And so PayPal quickly came to realize that the power of the people is not vested solely in the Leftist thugs who assert themselves ever more aggressively on America’s streets. PayPal discovered that America is still full of patriots who don’t wish to accept the Left’s lie that opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression constitutes “Islamophobia,” which is worse than jihad terror itself. What made Jihad Watch no longer a “hate site”? The voices of free people.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267...ns-jihad-watch-then-backs-down-robert-spencer



This however is only a small part of the problem, leftists are using the subjective term of 'hate speech' to mass censor and silence any opinions they don't agree with. From silencing the individuals, pulling down websites they don't like, and going as far to go after the financial institutions to get them banned from receiving funds as well, they is clearly no line the authoritarians of group think won't go to snuff non progressive viewpoints. China works directly with media giants such as Apple and Google to mute their population and i'm afraid the same is coming here to the USA as clearly people see no problem with a handful of corporations controlling what the masses can see and think.


I believe in 5 years, the internet as we know it will be similar to China's top down authoritarian control.
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I see a lot of this with my eyes. Whoever owns the media has this in mind, and it's kind of obvious.
 
If things continue at the rapid pace they have been, it might come a lot quicker than that.
 
It's quite obvious to anyone with brains that our republic is not governed by politics, but by metapolitics; cultural, entertainment and pop-philosophical ideas that are promoted within culture.

Before the internet/streaming/podcasting culture, those metapolitical forces were entirely in private hands- movies, newspapers, tv. There was a consensus among these private rulers what they thought the future of politics should be and so they produced the culture that produced tomorrow's political scene. Since the internet, that has been unraveling, and so the narrative of the old players has been disrupted.

This is a solid attempt to reclaim meta-politics and the narrative. It is of course completely hypocritical, but only losers whine about hypocrisy.
 
these are private companies that can do whatever they want
 
That's a stupid premise.

Chinese censorship comes from their government. Here it's private companies regulating the content on their platform. Nothing stops anyone from creating their own facebook-style company and applying different content rules.
 
Although I am against censorship, these are private companies. If it's that much of an issue, a suitable replacement will come about. Isn't that how the free market works?
 
panamaican said:
That's a stupid premise.

Chinese censorship comes from their government. Here it's private companies regulating the content on their platform. Nothing stops anyone from creating their own facebook-style company and applying different content rules.
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These 'private companies' are taking barking orders directly from governments as listed above. Governments and Politicians make the call and the private companies act on their behalf. This is middle man censorship.
 
This would absolutely be horrible. One of the worst things ever for humanity.
 
Looks like it's time to go back to MySpace. #myspacecomback
 
TheStruggle said:
These 'private companies' are taking barking orders directly from governments as listed above. Governments and Politicians make the call and the private companies act on their behalf. This is middle man censorship.
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In China. Not here.
 
As long as it doesn't have Japanese style censorship. I can only take so many pixleated genitals.
 
panamaican said:
In China. Not here.
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No, it's absolutely happening here as well. You have people like Zuckerberg and Bezos amogst many other who cozy up to Democrat thinktanks and the next thing you know, the authoritarian rules are coming down the pipe. Obama and Clinton last year were the first ones to bring up 'fake news' and how to attack it, within days Zuckerberg announced a new platform to remove 'fake news' from Facebook. This isn't organic, they are using these companies as middle men to push an agenda.
 
TheStruggle said:
No, it's absolutely happening here as well. You have people like Zuckerberg and Bezos amogst many other who cozy up to Democrat thinktanks and the next thing you know, the authoritarian rules are coming down the pipe. Obama and Clinton last year were the first ones to bring up 'fake news' and how to attack it, within days Zuckerberg announced a new platform to remove 'fake news' from Facebook. This isn't organic, they are using these companies as middle men to push an agenda.
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And nothing stops someone else from starting a different company and doing something different - that's the point.

In China, no one can do anything different because the censorship is ordered by the state. Here, private companies adjust their policy in a way that they think is most beneficial to them, either currying private support or political support. But no one can order them to do it and no one can enforce it.

Unlike in china. You are making the common error of conflating when a private entity (person or company) responds to public pressure (individual or political) that it is the same as state sanctioned behavior. They are very different.
 
panamaican said:
And nothing stops someone else from starting a different company and doing something different - that's the point.

In China, no one can do anything different because the censorship is ordered by the state. Here, private companies adjust their policy in a way that they think is most beneficial to them, either currying private support or political support. But no one can order them to do it and no one can enforce it.

Unlike in china. You are making the common error of conflating when a private entity (person or company) responds to public pressure (individual or political) that it is the same as state sanctioned behavior. They are very different.
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As I listed, Left wing providers are now going out to shut down websites they don't like, delist them, and defund the finical providers they people use to keep them afloat, so how are people suppose to "create their own site" when you are actively stopping them from doing that as well? GAB has been smeared as 'alt-right' so Google delisted them to prevent their grow and they are going after the hosting site to get them pull down. So you are active censoring people and telling them to use another site because they don't have the views you like to use yours, and then when they try to create their own platform you smear and silence them in a effort to prevent their movement from growing. You can also convince yourself these companies aren't taking barking orders from politicians but the end result will be the same and best case scenario you'll segregate the internet into an echo chamber which is just how China operates.
 
Here's further evidence of censorship by Twitter. They must be stopped!

 
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